GOTALOG 2000
Fourth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
Gothenburg University, Sweden
June 15-17 2000
http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/
FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Gotalog 2000 will be the fourth in a series of workshops that aim at
bringing together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics
of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal
semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, and
psychology. This year's workshop is organized in collaboration with
the EU-sponsored project TRINDI
http://www.ling.gu.se/research/projects/trindi/ , and will take place
at Gothenburg University. It will include talks on a number of topics
in the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including:
- the semantics and pragmatics of anaphora
- decision theory in pragmatics
- information state update
- dialogue games
- the semantics and pragmatics of questions
- spoken dialogue systems
- turn-taking and grounding in dialogue
as well as presentations by our four invited speakers:
Jens Allwood (Gothenburg)
Herbert Clark (Stanford)
Paul Dekker (Amsterdam)
Ronnie Smith (East Carolina)
Information about participation and registration, an online
registration form, and the preliminary program are available at
http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/
The workshop is endorsed by SIGDIAL, the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Discourse and
Dialogue.
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Local Arrangements
The local organization chair is Robin Cooper. For questions about
local arrangements, send email to trindiling.gu.se
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Program Committee:
Program chairs are Massimo Poesio (U Edinburgh, UK) and David Traum (U
Maryland, USA); the other members of the program committee are Cecile
Balkanski (LIMSI-CNRS, France), Johan Bos (U Saarlandes, Germany),
Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College London, UK), John Gurney (Army
Research Lab, US), Masato Ishizaki (JAIST, Japan), Gerhard Jaeger (ZAS
Berlin, Germany), Yasuhiro Katagiri (ATR, Japan), Jan van Kuppevelt
(IMS Stuttgart, Germany), Ian Lewin (SRI, UK), Diane Litman (AT&T,
USA), Johanna Moore (U Edinburgh, UK), Joakim Nivre (Gothenburg
University), Hannes Rieser (U Bielefeld, Germany), David Sadek (CNET,
France), Len Schubert (U Rochester, USA), and Henk Zeevat (U
Amsterdam, Netherlands).
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Previous workshops in this series include:
MunDial'97 (Munich) http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html
Twendial'98 (Twente) http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html
Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam) http://earth.let.uva.nl/~amstelog/
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For More Information:
Information about Gothenburg University Department of Linguistics:
http://www.ling.gu.se/
Information about Gothenburg: http://centralen.gp.se/tourist/
News about the conference will be posted on the workshop's Web page at
http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/
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